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The weird and the wonderful: How many facts about Scotland do you know?

Q-Aye! – The Scottish Facts You Need To Know | Part 7

Put yourself to the test with our list of 30 essential weird and wonderful Scotland facts. How many do you know?

The grand piano – invented by a Scot!

31. Arthur Conan Doyle was a goalie for Portsmouth. Under the pseudonym AC Smith, the writer played as a goalkeeper for amateur side Portsmouth Association Football Club, a precursor of the modern Portsmouth FC.

32. The grand piano was invented by John Broadwood, a carpenter from East Lothian in or around 1777. He also came up with the foot-pedal method for varying the sound of the keys

33. ‘Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott’ is an anagram of ‘A novel by a Scottish writer’.

34. The world record for the longest echo in a man-made structure is held by an underground fuel depot near Invergordon. In 2014 a blank shot fired from a pistol inside Inchindown tunnels reverberated for an incredible 112 seconds.

35. In Scotland, it is illegal for a boy under the age of 10 to see a naked mannequin.